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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo defends TV strategy
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has defended the firm’s investment in its social TV strategy, against…
Vivendi names Twitter exec to board
Vivendi has nominated Twitter executive Katie Jacobs Stanton to join its supervisory board. Stanton is…
Tumblr claims top social TV spot over Twitter
Yahoo-owned blogging platform Tumblr has staked its claim to the social TV crown after commissioning…
Sky launches Twitter programming controls
UK pay TV operator Sky has started to trial #WatchOnSky, a new Twitter tool that…
One in five Americans reached by ‘social TV’
Some 19% of online Americans aged 15 to 54 are reached by social media relating…
Kantar Media buys social TV analytics firm The Data Republic
Kantar Media, an audience research firm owned by ad giant WPP, has bought specialist social TV…
Twitter buys social TV analytics firms SecondSync and Mesagraph
Twitter has acquired UK-based social TV analytics firm SecondSync and France’s Mesagraph in its latest…
Twitter hashtags drive TV interactions, says Thinkbox
People search for Twitter hashtags on the social network because they have seen them on…
Influence of ‘second screen’ still negligible, says Ofcom
The recent phenomenon of the second screen screen has “not had a large influence of…
Brit Awards hit record Twitter traffic despite ratings slump
This week’s Brit Awards generated what Twitter said was a “record breaking” amount of traffic…